installation at SOIL Gallery, 2004
The exhibition was a result of a collaboration of ideas with Jodi Rockwell. The mattress as a familiar yet unexplored object provided us with the common ground. Deconstructing its conceptual implications, autobiographical and emotional meaning, as well as its very structure, we arrived at forms that still represent the body. We considered the mattress as both a personal, private space and as a receptacle like the body itself; absorbing, holding, filtering and excreting fluids.
in between: sheets, strings and membranes (detail)
nylons, steel frame, sewing thread, plastic ties, 7'x5'x5', 2004
in between: sheets, strings and membranes
nylons, steel frame, sewing thread, plastic ties, 7'x5'x5', 2004
insomnia
porcelain, springs, wood, 6'x3.5'x3', 2005
in between: silence
felt, polyurethane, mattress vent holes, 72"x8"x6", 2004
in between: silence (detail)
slippage
porcelain, polyurethane, plastic ties, steel, water, 5'x3'x2', 2005
slippage (detail)
porcelain, cast urethane rings, plastic ties, steel frame, water, 5'x3'x2', 2005
slippage (detail)